Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-08
NORFOLK.
MORE STRONG COMMITTEES APPOINT.
ed TO Wait wAsHINaroN.
An Earnest Fight to be Made In the
Interest of the Navy-yard-
Notes
Ioorrespopdcuoe of,he Rlohmond Disp4.ch.l

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispztch.l
JASUAEY 7, 1887.
Last night the Merchants and Mauuiac-
turers Exchange Of this city and the
Board OF Trade OF Portsmouth held meet
ings and appointed committees to visit
Washington aud cooperate with the may
ors. councilmen, and Cotton-Exchange men
of the two cities In defeating the abandon
ment of Gosport nayy-yard and the iop-
ping of OF Hampton Roads from this Gus
toms.collsction district. There will BE-
some thirty representative citizens In Lhe
delegation, end they are thoroughly In earn
est and will endeayor 10 enlist the sympi-
rhy and efforts OF ss many southern mem
hers as possible. The discrimination against
this yard by the Administration IN the ap.
portionment OF work Is very marked, and "
SIR. Whitney succeeds with his plan and Wiz.
,ually closes the establishment, 1t will be
calamity to hundreds OF worklngmen,
clerks, etc., and q serious blow to the BUSH
ness interests OF the two cities.
This morning the Board OF Naval H.
spectors, OF which Rear-Admral James II.
Jouett Is president, arrived here and in
spected the condition OF the United States
steamer Galensat the lower anchorage, and
then made a trial trip TO the capes on the
ship to see how she worked.
The Auditor OF Public Accounts at
Richmond has instructed Commonwealth's-
Attorney z. T.. Marshall, OF Portsmouth,
to bring suits on the official bonds OF the
clerks OF the County Court OF Norfolk
county and the Circuit Court OF the conaty
for refusing to allow the Portsmouth CON-
missioner OF the revenue TO examine nieir
Offices. as the law requires. The Board oil
Supervisors Of the county directed the said
clerks to resist the examination OF their OF
fees.
Lydia Wake (colored) was found dead In
he'd, at her house on Cumberland street,
last night by the police, having been dead
several days.
The Government coast.telegraph lines
continue down, and nothing cln be heard
from below.
The wrecking.stesmer Victoria Peed,
with all necessary appliances, has gone to
the assistance OF the schooner Fannie
Brown, sshore on Body island, near Nays
Head. The schooner is bound from Charles,
ton to Baltimore, and was stranded seveiaf
days ago.
The Clyde-Liue steamer City OF Atlanta,
recently lowed into this port with her ma
cbinery disabled, has completed repairs and
to-day sailed for her destination.
Rev. J. /. Burrows, d. d., the popular
pastor OF Freemsson.S street Baptist church,
was presented with several handsome gifts
by his congregation last evening.
Alail.bags in the postatcar OH the Norfolk
Southern railroad caught fire fron stove
yesterday and had to be thrown ont at
Great Bridge TO save the car. A portion OF
the mail in the burn bags was saved.
Incoming vessels this morning report
the schooner Joseph Baymore, from Phlla-
deIpbia, bound south, off Nag's Head In
distress, and leaking badly.
The Fredericksburg steamer Essex Is
now laid up here on account OF the Kappa
hannock's being frozen over above Port
Royal. The Washington steamers are also
laid up here.
Not life was lost on board steamboat
in this inspection district during last year,
either by collision, explosion, or fire. q.